विभिन्न देशों के कानून और पर्यावरण नियमों का बड़े पैमाने पर उल्लंघन करने में वेदांत रिसोर्सेज़ की एक अलग पहचान है. कहने को तो यह कम्पनी एक पब्लिक कम्पनी है मगर इसमें वर्चस्व खुले तौर पर केवल एक व्यक्ति, उसके परिवार और इष्ट मित्रों का ही है. इस कम्पनी को इस बात पर भी नाज़ है कि वह हिन्दुत्व और नव-उदार रूढ़िवादिता में समन्वय स्थापित करती है. परेशानी की बात...

Potato farmers Madhusudan Mondal and Lakshman Adak, in their mid-50s, live 15km apart in West Bengal’s Hooghly district. Both have produced a bumper crop this year, but that has meant different things for Mondal and Adak. Mondal earned around Rs3.5 lakh selling 150 tonnes of potatoes to PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt. Ltd, having signed a contract with the maker of carbonated beverages and Frito-Lay chips to sell his produce to it...

Ambitious planting programmes in Asia and the United States have helped slow the global rate of deforestation but farmers are still cutting trees to clear LAND at an alarmingly high rate, a U.N. survey released on Thursday shows. Forests absorb and store greenhouse gases so deforestation can exacerbate mean the effects of climate change, said Mette Loyche Wilkie, coordinator of the assessment by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Eduardo Rojas,...

Riding on high sales of its snacks brands like Lays and Uncle Chipps, Pepsico has engaged 12,000 farmers across the country for contract farming of potato. "There are 12,000 farmers doing contract farming of potato for us involving 16,000 acres of LAND," Executive Vice-president of Pepsico Holdings (agro-business) Nischint Bhatia said. He said that out of the 12,000 farmers, 6,500 of them are in West Bengal working 2,600 acres. Bhatia...

The Supreme Court has instructed several mining enterprises based in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh — including one, the Obulapuram Mining Company, that is associated with the powerful Reddy brothers of Karnataka — to stop operations while investigations are conducted into whether they are mining in areas which they aren’t supposed to touch. This is a welcome check on the Reddy brothers, who must have begun to think of themselves...